Valerie Bemeriki

Valerie Bemeriki (1955-) was a presenter of Rwanda's Hutu Power Radio during the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Biography
Valerie Bemeriki was born in 1955 in Rutshuru, Belgian Congo, and she joined the National Republican Movement for Democracy and Development (MRND), under which she served as a propagandist. Later, she would write for the Interahamwe publication, and she became one of the main presenters of Hutu Power Radio, a racist radio station. She was very aggressive, and she had 17% of the radio's airtime, being the second most-listened-to radio host on the station. Bemeriki returned to Zaire in July 1994, going into exile until she was arrested on 13 June 1999 by the Rwandan Army. In 2009, she was sentenced to life imprisonment for her role in the Rwandan Genocide, during which she had instigated anti-Tutsi violence.